How to Use devious in a Sentence

devious

adjective

• He took us by a devious route to the center of the city.
• The last of the five is the most devious.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• The ways may be devious, but teenagers are adept at finding them.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018
• The devious plan to keep us all hooked on heating and cooking with gas.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 5 Apr. 2022
• Just a hint of a smirk and perhaps a small twinkle in his eye as hints to his devious deed.
  — Megan Ryan, Star Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
• None of these can usurp the top position of that list from the devious aaloo methi.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz India, 26 Nov. 2019
• The devising and devious edgelord can be chortling and laughing all the way to the bank.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• Not in the literal sense, but rather a meddler, a planter of devious seeds.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2022
• Their eyes are big and slightly devious—a signature of his work.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2021
• Slaveholders were clever and devious along with evil.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• In the snapshot, the royal sports a gingham dress, dark clogs, and an adorably devious smile.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 26 Nov. 2018
• That’s when my twelve-year-old brain experienced its first devious epiphany.
  — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 7 Feb. 2026
• But the more devious challenge is keeping your mind focused on the finish line and not on the pain.
  — Brandon T. Harden, Philly.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Most notably, the bride in the attic is no longer a devious axe murderer.
  — Robert Niles, Orange County Register, 21 Jan. 2025
• When a predator descends to snack on the spider, it is met instead with the jaws of the devious snake.
  — Ryley Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2025
• These days the word rattlesnake is most likely to be applied to a crooked, devious person.
  — National Geographic, 26 June 2016
• The devious texts have a truthful air, as they are connected to recent news.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2025
• Jeremy Strong is very good at playing devious men with very deep pockets.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 17 June 2026
• The grasping consort and devious stepmother are stock types as old as time.
  — Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• White spoke with me again to explain the wild finale and Stephen’s devious nature.
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• Think about the devious design of what corporations have been up to.
  — Faiz Shakir, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2021
• In retrospect, Discoe said that this seems like a rather devious move.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2018
• The app Alarmy has a truly devious workaround for this impulse.
  — Audra Williams, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2019
• Are these self-help messages — which more young males need to learn — merely gateway drugs to more devious worldviews?
  — Andrew Reiner, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2025
• Orchids are among the most devious flowering plants on the planet.
  — Richard Pallardy, Science | AAAS, 12 May 2021
• But life, in this case a devious grandfather and a meddlesome mother, gets in the way of their true love.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 2022
• Of all the maneuvers airlines make with ticket pricing, this one may be the most devious.
  — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• Kardashian shared a few snaps of her kids' devious invention which is much more advanced than the traps of my day.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 18 Mar. 2021
• After thinking about the weighty matter, the vendor comes up with a clever or perhaps devious plan.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• From annoying mashers to devious white slavers, danger lurked in the shadows of the city streets.
  — Longreads, 10 Jan. 2018